1. Daisy Miller and The Beast in the Jungle
... with Winterbourne's aunt's rejection of Daisy, and how she is sick and simply cannot meet her. Gradually we will begin to see the doors of society closing in. After the cheerful opening, this terrible atmosphere is unexpected, and it's hard to even find out where the tragedy starts. Despite being seen as a "pretty American flirt", Daisy is likable, and with her " ... in praying that "he mightn't know". By choice, he lives without memories nor affect and we see how brutally fitting his fate eventually seems to be: he is "the man, to whom nothing on earth was to have happened". In com...
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